Originally posted December 20th, 2006
Just discovered the StumbleUpon site/service and I like it quite a bit. The basic premise is that you are directed to semi-random web sites that match the interests you indicate. You can add any sites you like to the large meta-data directory other users have created and the sites that are “liked” the most rise to the top of the list of sites you are most likely to be directed to.A cool concept, well executed, and I found a lot of interesting sites I would not have otherwise encountered. They need more links, though, as I started getting repeated sites about an hour in. Now if Digg would develop a similar plug-in for their user-submitted links (or bought StumbleUpon) that would make for some interesting times.
– Joe